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1902 



HISTORY OF THE 

FUCKINOER 
FAMILY <^ 

BY 

REV. D. K. FLICKINGER 

ASSISTED BY 

MRS. SUE E. T. MECHLING 






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BY REQUEST 

EDWARD FLICKINGER 

GALION, OHIO 




REV. DANIEL KUMLER FLICKINGER, 

AT THE AGE OH 78. 



HISTORY 



OF THE 



FLICKINGER 

FAMILY 



RE\'. D. K. FLICKINGER 

ASSISTED HY 

MRS. Sl'l". 1£. T. Ml-Xlll.IXC. 



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GAl.ION, OHIO 



PREFACE. 

THE undersigned were appointed a Commitlee by Mr. Edward 
Flickinger, the publisher of this booklet, to assist the author 
in compiling statistics of " later generations." after the history 
had already been completed by its author to and including the four- 
teen children of Jacob and Hannah Flickinger. 

While the author was visiting the publisher at the latter's home 
in Galion. Ohio, their conversation reverted to early family affairs. 
Edward told his guest that such an interesting family story ought to 
be published so that it wnulil not be lost to the later generations. 
Mr. Hdwaril Flickinger then told Rev. I). K. Flickinger that he would 
bear the expense of publication if the latter would write a history of 
the family. The jiublisher induced the author to accept the proposi- 
tion. Before undertaking the work, Rev. I). K. Flickinger made a 
trip to Pennsylvania, and traversed the earlier locations of the family, 
for the special purposes of this booklet. But for the earnest solicita- 
tion of the publisher, the author would not have undertaken this 
work, and this family history would not have been preserved. 

We hope others of the family will enjoy reading these pages as 
much as we have enjoyed them while perfonning the small parts 
assigned to us. 

MRS. SfE E. T. MKCHLING. 
S. J. FLICKINGER. 
Hamilton, ()., l-KHRrAKV 14, 1902. 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Rev. Daniel Kumler Flickinger, at the age of 78 Frontispiece. 

Mrs. Hannah (Kumler) Flickinger, aged 92 Facing page 13. 

Mrs. Susanna (Wingert) Kumler, aged 96, " " 21- 

Five Generations " " ^5- 

Mrs. Hannah (Kumler) Flickinger, Mrs. Susanna (Wingert) Kumler, 

Jacob Flickinger, .-Vbraham Flickinger, William 

Ellsworth Flickinger. 



SKETCH OF THE FLICKINGER FAMILY. 

RV PEV. D. K. FLICKINGER. 

r "VICING ur>;L(i to prepare a historical sketch of the Flickinper 
'\ family, |)revious to my father's time, and to incliule in it his 
own family, I have clone so to the best of my ability. Having 
visited the old homestead in Cocalico Township. Lancaster County, 
Pennsylvania, and finding; some papers there, such as a surveyor's 
plat of ground, made about the year 1760. and deeds of land dated 
a little later; also an inventory with bill of sale of goods, chattels, 
rights, and credits, bearing the name of l-'lickinger, I was enabled to 
obtain the following inform.ilion respecting our foref;ithers: 

Our greatgrandfather, Josei-h Fi.ickingkr, was born in Switzer- 
land, about the year 1740, and came to this country when nearly 
twenty years of age. and settled in the northwestern part of Lancaster 
County. Pennsylvania. He there entered a tract of land containing 
about two hundred acres, the plat of which I saw, and which was 
dated May 19, 1761. On that land he lived, al.so our grandfather, and 
our father when a young man. for some years. 

Greatgrandfather was married soon after he reached America, but 
neither the maiden name of the woman he married, nor the exact time 
of their marriage, is known. They settled upon the tract of land that 
Joseph I-'Iickinger had entered, and there reared eight children, four 
sons and four daughters, whose names were as follows: Christian. Jacob, 
Joseph, Samuel, Mary. Anna, Elizabeth, and Christina. The last two 
married brothers by the name of Eberly. Anna married a Mr. Cockley, 
and Mary a Mr. Hou.ser. The only additional facts which I could 
obtain of our great-grandfather, was that he died in 1S12, having 

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6 HIS TOR Y OF THE FLICKINGER FA MIL V. 

spent most of his life on the tract of land which he had entered, and 
where he had reared his family. 

His son Joseph, our grandfather, became the owner of his farm, 
and died there in 1829, and was buried beside his father in a grave- 
yard adjacent to the farm which they both had owned. Grandfather 
was married three times ; fir.st, to Miss Esther Newcomer, who was 
our grandmother, and who died before reaching middle age. His 
second marriage was to Miss Boyer, who was the mother of Samuel 
Flickinger, our half-uncle, who also died comparatively young. His 
last marriage was to a woman whose maiden name I could not obtain, 
and with whom he had no children. 

Our father was born March 20, 1781, and died March 29, 1844. 
He had no sisters, and but one full brother, whose name was Joseph, 
who was only a couple of years younger than himself and died 
about the year 1859. Father's half-brother, Samuel Flickinger, was 
born about the year 1798, and died in 1875, leaving a family of nine 
children, forty-eight grandchildren, and thirteen great-grandchildren. 
Most of these are still living in the States of Illinois and Iowa, and 
are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Our great-grandfather was, in his Church relations, an old-school 
Mennonite, and, politically, what was called in Lancaster County, 
Pennsj'Ivania, a Jackson Democrat. Our grandfather adopted the 
same views of his father, both politically and denominationally, and 
maintained them till the end of his life. Father's only full brother. 
Uncle Joseph, was also a Mennonite, but, politically, he belonged to 
the Whig party all his life. Our half-uncle, Samuel, father's half- 
brother, was also a Whig, and later a Republican, and died such. He 
was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Our father, Jacob Flickinger, was, in his Church relations, a United 
Brethren in Christ, and, politically, a Whig. Cousin John Flickinger, 
the only child of our Uncle Joseph Flickinger, a full brother to father, 
and the only near relative we have on father's side, is a member of 
the Evangelical Church, sometimes called Albrights, and, politically, 
a Republican. He has been married twice, having two children with 



HISTORY OF THE FLICKINGER FAMILY. 7 

his first wife, but none with the second, both of whom are dead. Only 
one of his children lives, a daughter, who is married, and lives in Klein- 
feltersville, Pennsylvania, and he makes his home with his son-in-law. 

Most of the Flickingers, so far as I have had knowledge of them, 
were farmers, but some became mercliants, ministers, and doctors. 
There is one fact in connection with the tract of land entered by our 
great-grandfather, over one hundred and forty years ago, which is 
remarkable for this country, and that is, that except a few acres, sold 
off of one corner of that tract, it always has been in possession of 
some one of great-grandfather's descendants by the name of Flickinger. 
First it was owned by great-grandfather, next by grandfather, then by 
our father, and then liy his only full brother, and now by his son, John, 
the only child he had. He ofTers to sell it. and if any of the descendants 
wish to have it continue in the Flickinger name they can buy it on 
reasonabl'j terms. There is a cherry-tree standing near the house 
which grandfather planted about one hundred and twenty years ago. 
still bearing cherries. I picked cherries from that tree in 1842, and 
again in 1S44. and came near getting a terrible fall the last time. 

On one comer of this land stands the district schoolhouse. and 
in the rear ol that house there is a graveyard which has been, and 
still is, the burying-ground of tliat ucighborhcKKi to .some extent. 
Great-grandfather laid it out. and grandfather added to it. Both are 
buried there, as arc other members of the Flickinger family. The 
schoolhouse adjoining it has always been u.sed for preaching services 
as well as school. Dunkards, Mennoniles, and others preach in it. 
Any one who wishes to engage in Christian work may do so in it. 
I have attended meetings there a number of times, and have been 
invited to conduct services in it myself. I often thought I would 
preach there some time, but have not done so for some reason. 

A part of the l)uildings on the farm were put there by our grand- 
father, and some by our father, some by liis brother Joseph, and 
some by its present owner, John Flickinger. Tlie farm lies about 
twenty miles north of Lancaster, fourteen miles west of Reading, and 
thirteen miles southeast of fA-banon. Pennsvlvania. There are two 



8 HISTOR Y OF THE FLICKINGER FAMIL Y. 

railroad stations within five miles of it; a post-ofEce and a store, one 
mile; a mill, two miles; and two churches within three miles of it, 
at which Lutheran and German Reformed ministers officiate. 

Among the peculiarities of the Flickingers, the following might 
be named: They were extremists, and seemingly contradictory often 
in many things relating to their physical, mental, and moral make-up. 
Some were quite large, good-looking, lazy, and wicked, but the 
majority were small, ugly, industrious, and pious. There was a certain 
Flickinger, who lived in Cocalico Township, and had charge of the 
post-ofRce by the name of Cocalico. He kept a store and a hotel 
there, and was called the laziest man that ever lived in Lancaster 
County, Pennsylvania. The neighbors say he finally died because he 
was too lazy to take medicine when put within his reach by a phy- 
sician ; at least so it was reported. I often saw him sitting in the store, 
in which the post-office was kept, and where he watched his clerk closely. 
He was an old bachelor, living with his mother, who superintended the 
household affairs of the hotel, having a hired girl, who did the work 
mostly, as his clerk in the store did it there. Lazy as he was he 
managed to accumulate property, and at his death left ample means 
to meet all unpaid bills, with some to spare. 

Another peculiarity of the Flickingers, as they were prior to the 
present generation, was that they managed to keep out of the hands of 
policemen and other officers of the law. I never heard of any being 
imprisoned or arrested for crime, but there are several who should have 
been, if they were guilty of charges alleged against them. The large 
majority of them were well-to-do Christians, and a blessing to the com- 
munities in which they lived. If we, their descendants, will do as well as 
they did for the life that now is, and for the life which is to come, then 
the name will rank high on earth, and many who bear it will be crowned 
with glory, immortality, and eternal life at the right hand of God. 

JACOB FLICKINGER, SR. 

After these scattering remarks respecting the Flickingers, ante- 
cedent to and closely related to Jacob -Flickinger, my father, I shall 
now briefly sketch his life, and that of my mother, doing in this, as I 



HISTORY OF THE 1-LICKlNGER FAMILY. 9 

have done in what has already been written, namely, avail myself of 
such information and facts as are necessary to enable any one who 
may be so disposed to write a fuller history of the family. 

Father lived near the place he was born, in Lancaster County, 
Pennsylvania, until about twenty-five years old, when he moved to 
Franklin County, Pennsylvania, where he lived iiiitil 1S18, and then 
he came to Ohio and settled in Butkr County. He was married twice; 
first to Miss Stover, who lived only a few years, and died childless. 
His second marriage was to my mother, in 1H14, whose maiden name 
was Hannah Kumler. They liad, in all, fourteen children, .seven sons 
and seven daughters, ten of whom, five sons and five daughters, lived 
to have families thera.selvcs, and most of them large ones. 

The one hundred acres of land father owned near Greencastle, 
Franklin County, I'eiinsylvania, where he lived .some years before he 
removed to the We.st, brought enough for hin> to purchase two hundred 
acres, lying in the forks of I'our Mile and Seven Mile Creeks, and 
near the vill.ige of Seven Mile. Butler County, Ohio. Then by his 
industry, indomitable etiergy, and farseeing business tact, he soon 
added another farm, and kept on adding farms until, at his death, 
twenty-six years after he reached Ohio, he owned over eight hundred 
acres of good land in Butler County, Ohio, and had considerable money 
at interest. He never engaged in any speculations, but by good 
management, econonjy, and industry, he made money, and when he 
learned of a farm for sale which suited him, .Tnd which was offered 
at a fair price, he bought it. He was worth, at his death, about 
$50,o<x), which was regarded as great wealth for a farmer to amass 
back in "the forties." He had great influence among his neighbors, 
who regarded him as an honest, succe.ssful farmer and business man, 
which he was. His advice was often asked, and his counsel taken, 
by those who knew him best, and many were jirofited thereby. 
Work, honesty, and "serving the Lord," were always recommended to 
others. 

The same energy, wisdom, and straightforward dealings which char- 
acterized his life in the affairs of this world, he carried out in religious 
matters. He farmed on a large .scale, and erected a number of houses 



lo HISTORY OF THE FLICKINGER FAMILY. 

and barns and other buildings on his farms, and, as a matter of course, 
hired a great deal of work done. To his employees on the farm he 
said, "Come boys," he going with them to work: and he never asked 
any one to do more than he did. He was a close obser%'er, and a good 
judge of human nature, and read men pretty correctly after working 
with them a day or two. Having large hars-ests to gather, it was no 
uncommon thing for him to have twelve or fifteen hands reaping grain, 
or three or four cradling it, when that could be done, or that many 
mowing grass for hay. There were no reapers or mowers in those days, 
and often the grain had so fallen that it could not be cradled. Then the 
sickle was used. His regular hired help, up to within a few years of 
his death, when he could no longer make a full hand, was from two to 
four farm hands, and from one to two hired girls. 

With all the multiplied cares upon them that they personally had 
to overlook, father and mother always took time to have family worship, 
morning and night, at which all the family and help were expected to 
be present. Then every two weeks, as a rule, the circuit preacher 
came along, Saturday forenoon, and preached in our house at i P. M., 
and all the help was expected to attend. When quarterly-meeting time 
came, which sometimes was at our house, but oftener ten and even 
fifteen miles away, they attended, especially father, spending Saturday 
and Sunday at it. Then when camp-meeting came, once a year, they 
were there with a tent, and fed large crowds. Once a neighbor said 
in my hearing: "Look at that pasture-field; there are twelve or fifteen 
strange horses in it, and as many people in the house, and all these 
people and horses have been here for three da3's. They will eat old 
Jacob out of house and home." This was on a quarterly-meeting 
occasion, which had commenced Friday night, and closed on Monday 
night. 

Father and mother's idea of life was to work hard, be honest, live 
plain but well, and take time to attend to the interests of their souls, 
but to spend no time in the way of recreation or seeing sights, other 
than necessary visiting to show friendship, and attend to the wants of 
the afflicted and needy. They were kind and helpful to the worthy 



HISTORY OF THE FLICKINGER FAMILY. ii 

poor, and mother sometimes to the worthless poor ; but father did not 
spend much time or money on such, unless it was an extreme case of 
suffering, when he would help. To real objects of charity, or when 
there were grounds for hope that reformation would follow efforts to 
help the unworthy poor, father would take chances even of losing some 
money to help such. 

In x'ifi'sy. an itinerant nnnister came to father's house, having noth- 
ing in which to carry his clean clothes but a cotton cloth, and without 
njoney to buy anything. His circuit was about one hundred miles 
around, and kept him from home over two weeks, he traveling on 
horseback. The meeting was at i P M.. and going to his next .i])- 
pointment. he went through Hamilton. I'ather's .saddler was there, 
and he told the preacher to slop and get a pair of s<iddle-bags. which he 
did, they costing three dollars. Hut a few years after that, another 
"circuit-rider" came to father's house to preach, and. instead of having 
a saddle, he rode on a blanket. The only saddle on the farm worth 
giving away. I owned, and father told me to bring it out an<l put it 
on his liorse, saying he would gel me another, which he did. This 
made me cro.ss, and I said I wished the preachers would stay away 
from our house. 

Father had a tenant, who lived in a small house on one corner of 
his farm, who worked for him by the day. He was a strong, willing 
laborer, and no fault was found with him, except that he would get 
drunk occasionally. One cold Saturday night he was found b\ the 
wayside dead drunk on his way home from Hamilton, where he had 
gone early that day. The neighbor who lound him. wakened him. got 
him home, and notified father of what had happened. On Monday 
morning father sent for him, and. with fear and trembling, the man 
came to our house, supposing father would tell him to get out of his 
house, knowing how he hated drunkenness. After he was seated, 
father .said: "John, I sent for you to tell you that eighty acres of land 
was offered nie very cheap," mentioning the place, "and I want you 
to go and buy it right away." The man looked at father to ascertain 
whether he was in earnest or in jest, and finally said, "Why, Mr. Flick- 



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HI ST OR Y OF THE FLICKINGER FAMIL V. 



inger, you know I have not a cent ahead, and I can't pay for that 
farm." Father replied that the eighty acres could be bought for $560, 
one-third to be paid down, one-third in one year, and the other third 
in two years, adding, " I will loan you the money for the cash pay- 
ment, and you can earn the other payments by the time they are due, 
and you can pay me afterward. You are strong and a good worker, 
and your wife is a worker also, and in that way you can get a good 
home. As a matter of course, John, you can waste no money for use- 
less things, and lose no time going to town, but you will soon own a 
home, which is far better, both for this world and for the world to 
come." 

Upon father's promise that he would help him to pay for eighty 
acres of land, John bought that farm, and quit getting drunk, paid for 
the farm, and in a few years bought another farm and united with the 
Church, and lived to be eighty years of age, leaving when he died a 
large family of well-to-do children, and an estate worth at that time not 
less than $75,000. That man came to see father a week before he died, 
and spent several hours, saying, to mother and myself, that all that he 
was he owed to father, who was the only man that interested himself m 
his welfare, and trusted him when he was penniless and leading a dissi- 
pated life. He referred to how father urged him to buy that eighty 
acres of land, and showed how he could pay for it, and that he would 
stand by him until it was done. He warmed up, and said, why after a 
man like father did that to him, a poor drunkard, he felt he must never 
drink again, and he never did, and he must work and pay for the larm. 

There was a German, by the name oi 'V^'illy, and another by the 
name of Lentz, whom he helped to acquire farms; one to forty acres of 
land, and the other to one hundred acres of land in the same way. 
Father took great pleasure in helping poor, industrious people, and not 
a few were thus helped by him. 

Father was a local preacher in the United Brethren Church, and 
sometimes, after working hard all week, went on horseback from ten to 
twenty miles and preached twice on Sunday, and then he would be out 
early Monday morning at work. He had a good faculty of preaching 




MRS. HANNAH (KUMLER) FLICKINGER, 

AGED g2. 



HISTORY OF THE FLICKINGER FAMILY. 13 

short-sentence sermons, never jested, seldom laughed lund. and was 
always readj' to help worthy poor people with good counsel and 
money. On his deathbed he told us children to be kind to deserving 
poor people. 

MRS. HANNAH FLICKINGER 

Now, some things about mother, whose merits as wife, mother, and 
Christian in no respect were inferior to those possessed by father, as 
husband, father, and Christian. Mother was born October 12. 179S, 
was converted at the age of thirteen, and joined the United Brethren 
Church. She was ninety-three years and some months old when she 
died, February 5, 1892. She wxs a devoted Christian for eighty years 
or more. Rev. D. Berger, D. D., who preached her funeral, and had 
been her pastor and knew her well, among many other tilings spoken 
in her prai.se, used the following language: 

"In her religious life Mrs, Flickinger was in the highest degree ex- 
enii)lary. Modest as to profession of spititual attainments, yet ever ready 
to make confession of her faith, her unostentatious and always consist- 
ent Christian life was her noblest testimony. Her interest in the wel- 
fare of the Church never waned, and she supported liberally with her 
means its various departments of enterprise. She never ceased to be 
solicitious for the spiritual welfare of her family, including grandchildren 
and greal-granilrliildren, and during her later years she frequently 
called them all by name — lor she knew the names of even the youngest 
— in her prayers for them in her chamber. About seven years before 
she died her vision failed her to the extent of total blindness; so that 
she spent the remainder of her life in entire darkness. It was touching 
to hear her remark, in answer to inquir>' by friends, ' Yes, I am in good 
health, and the Lord is very kind : but it is so dark.' How glorious the 
transition from the dimness and darkness of earth to the clear bright- 
ness and splendor of heaven !' 

"The life of this gootl woman, extending through eighty years of 
religious .service and beautiful example, is a magnificent achievement, a 
distinguished moral and Christian triumph, the onward march of spir- 
itual victory to its ultimate goal. As an illustration of a living and in- 
spiring faith in Christ it has left an ineffaceable impression upon many 
other lives, and there are many to rise up aud call her bles.sed. Of her 
this remarkable aud unique record may be made, that she was the daugh- 



14 HISTORY OF THE FLICKIAGER FAAHLY. 

ter of a bishop, the sister of a bishop, and the mother of a bishop, the 
last two being the late Bishop Henry Kumler, Jr., and Ex-Bishop D. K. 
Flickiuger, so familiarly known to the Church for over a third of a 
century through his identification with the missionary work. Some 
time before her death she made all arrangements for her funeral, among 
other things selecting as a text of Scripture for the funeral sermon 
the words, ' I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with th)- likeness,' from 
Psalm xvii, 15, most fitting words to express her life. 

" Thus closed peacefully and sweetly, rich in the harvest of years, 
and abounding in honor and profoundest affection, the earthly life of this 
saintly Christian woman, her end recalling with far more than ordinary 
force the words of Scripture, ' Blessed are the dead which die in the 
Lord from henceforth : Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from 
their labors; and their works do follow them.'" 

I now come to brief sketches of the children of my parents (Jacob 
and Hannah Flickiuger), there having been fourteen born to them, ten 
of whom grew up to manhood and womanhood, five sons and five 
daughters, who all married and had families, and most of them large 
families. Mother Flickiuger lived to see the time when she had about 
eighty grandchildren, and half that number of great-grandchildren. 
This sketch will only give the names of the children and their consorts, 
and the number of their children, giving date of the birth of all mother's 
children, and the date of the death of those who have passed away. 

.SAMUEL FLICKIXGER, 

The oldest, was born April 4, 18 15, and died February 23, 1881. He 
was married to Miss Maria Zeller, with whom he had seven children, 
four sons and three daughters. Having all been raised farmers, 
Samuel continued to be one for some years after his marriage, when he 
engaged in the wholesale book business in Cincinnati, Ohio, in which 
business he continued about twenty-five years, when he returned to his 
farm near Seven Mile, Ohio, and after spending a few years there, he 
died suddenh- of heart disease, being about sixty-six years old at his 
death. Samuel was an earnest, benevolent Christian worker, who gave 
time, mone)', and hard work to promote religious, educational, and mis- 
sionary enterprises. He loved fun, and jested a good deal, but never 



HISTORY OF THE FUlKL\GER I'AMU.Y. 15 

sought thereby to injure any cue, but rather to help others. He was 
broad-spirited, and helped in all that pertained to the improvement of 
society, and took deep interest in the welfare of our family. He would 
go to more trouble and expense to visit those who lived far away, and 
who needed sympathy and help than, perhaps, any one of the family. 
No matter how low persons were, if they manifested a desire to reform 
and lead a better life, he would lake hold of them, and a.ssociate with 
them freely to help them. 

JACOB MJCKINGHR. 

The second in order of time, was born July 16, 1816, and died Jan- 
uary 25, 1890. He was married three times; first to Mi.ss Catharine 
Beam, with whom he had three children, one son and two dau>;hlers. 
She died in 1^4^. He subsc<in<.iuly married Mi.ss Catharine Landis, 
with whom Ik- had four childriii. two sons and two dau^;htcrs. ^he 
dying sonie years after the birth of the youngest child, and he remained 
a widower several years. Afterward he married Mrs. L>dia Dutrow ; 
to them a daughter was born. His occupation was farming most of his 
life, but he kept a small store and post-office in Illinois a short time, 
and spent his last few years in a mill which was operated by one of his 
sons-in-law. He was a great worker, and possessed as many, if not 
more, of the traits of character that father had, as any of our family. 
Father's old saying was his, not infrequently, namely. "An ox by his 
born, and a man by his word." He pushed his work, and as a farmer 
succeeded well. He was always ready with his money to help, and gave 
to all Church enterprises and to the poor. He was an early riser, and 
never shirked work. Idleness, and especially laziness, was, in his 
estimation, the unpardonable sin, for which there was no forgiveness, 
ueither in this world nor the life to come. He was like father in this 
respect. They often made themselves slaves to hard work unneces- 
sarily, and idleness, in their estimation, was not to be tolerated, and it 
was not tolerated, so far as they could prevent it. They detested idlers, 
drunkards, and gossips. 



1 6 HISTORY OF THE FLICKINGER FAMILY. 

JOSEPH FLICKINGER, 
The next in order of birth, was born March ii, 1818, and died Oc- 
tober 20, 1832, of a fever. He was a promising boy in his fifteenth 
year, when the death angel removed him. 

SUSANNAH FLICKINGER 
Was the first daughter born, but lived only a few months, being born 
July 16, 1820, and dying October 20th of the same year. 

HENRY FLICKINGER, 
The next in order of birth, was born July 28, 182 1, and died Jul)' 10, 
1 891. He married Elizabeth Furlow, there being born to them five 
sons and three daughters. He also spent most of his life on a farm in 
Butler County, Ohio, where he commenced business for himself as soon 
as he was married. He quit the farm later, and went into the manufac- 
turing business in Toledo for a few years. He then removed to Del- 
phos, and afterward to Seven Mile, where he ended his days. The last 
years of his life were spent working for different enterprises, which gave 
him healthful exercise, and enabled him to go about a good deal, vi'hich 
he seemed to enjoy much. He also took a deep interest in all family 
matters, and would put himself to a great deal of trouble to communi- 
cate any information and help others. He was a decided Christian, and 
always made that fact known when opportunity offered itself. In his 
religious life he was zealous. He possessed a large social nature, and 
turned it to good account. During the Rebellion of 1S61 to 1865, he was 
a most devoted patriot. His oldest son was a soldier, and was killed 
soon after he volunteered. No man ever lived who wished others well 
to a greater extent than Henry, and when he died he was greatly missed 
by our family, as his visits to all his brothers and sisters were more 
regular than those of any of the others. 

DANIEL K. FLICKINGER 
Was born May 25, 1824, and still lives. He first married Mary Lint- 
ner, by whom he had three sons ; one dying when but five days old. 
His wife died October, 1851. In Jantiary, 1853, he was married to 



HIST()RY OF THE FLICKINGER FAMILY. 17 

Catharine Glossbrenner. who lived only until August, 1854, when she 
died. To them a daughter was bom, w^ho lived but four days. He 
was married the third time, in October. t856, to Susan Woolsey, who 
died in June, 1901. To this union there were born three sons and three 
daughters. Daniel, like the other sons of Jacob Flickinger, was a farmer 
until he began preaching when twenty-six years of age. He attended 
the common schooLs : spent one year at a seminan-. and taught school 
two winters before entering the ministry in September, 1850, in which 
employment he has since continued. In January. 1855, with two other 
ministers, he went to Africa to found the first foreign mission that the 
United Brethren in Christ established. He returned from Africa the 
last time in April, 1896, having been there twelve times in the lorty-one 
years intervening between his first and last visit to that country, being 
gone from five to eight months each time, except the first time when he 
was gone seventeen months. In 1H57 he was elected corresponding 
secretary of the Hoard of Mi.ssions of the United Brethren, which office 
he held twenty-eight consecutive years, and then was made Bishop of 
Africa and Germany. Not favoring the plan of making a bishop's 
district abroad, he tendered his resignation, which was not accepted, 
hence he filled that office four years, when it was discontinued. In 1897 
he was elected secretary by the radical wing of the I'nited Brethren 
Church, which position he still occupies. He has traveled for missions 
over 565,000 miles, having gone to Africa twelve times, Germany eight 
times, California, Oregon, and Washington twice, and to all parts of the 
United States and Canada in which United Brethren Annual Confer- 
ences are found, numbering twenty-five States of the Union, attending 
many of them a number of times, 

HMZABKTH FLICKINGKR 

Was born March 11, 1826, and still lives. She married Andrew 
Timberman, with whom she had five sons and five daughters. She 
always has lived oti a farm, and is now on the same one and in the same 
house to which she first went after her marriage, and rumor says, she 
expects to remain right there all the days of her earthly pilgrimage. 



1 8 HISTORY OF THE FLICKINGER FAMILY. 

In appearance she resembles her father more than any of the daughters 
who grew to womanhood. She is, in the true sense of the word, a 
womanly woman, and always ready to act well her part. Her hospi- 
tality knows no bounds, and she takes great pleasure in entertaining 
people at her home. She will be greatly missed, when gone, by her 
family and by the community in which she has lived about sixty j-ears. 
She has in all her life been an earnest and exemplary Christian. 

JOHN K. FLICKINGER 

Was born May 3, 1S27, and is yet alive. He married Sallie Marston, 
to which union three sons and four daughters were born. He always 
preferred other business to farming, and soon after he commenced life 
for himself went into the milling business. He owned both a grist and 
a saw mill in connection with his farm at one time. He decidedly pre- 
ferred to operate an engine rather than the plow. In his later years he 
has been engaged in the fire insurance business. Though he still lives 
on a farm, and always has, he shows but little taste for farming. He 
was quite a trader, and loved to make business brisk in the community 
where he lived. His religious life was largely controlled by his busi- 
ne.ss habits. He was very strict in all these things. He kept up his 
duties as a Christian at home and in Church quite well. His tenacity, 
to what he believes is proper and right, is great. He often has adhered 
to what he must have known to be against his own interests in business 
matters, and in his Church relations as well. It is very hard for him to 
yield or give up anything that he has decided was right. 

AN INFANT 

Was next born to father and mother, July, 1829. It lived only three 
or four hours, and never received a name. 

MARIA FLICKINGER, 

The next in the order of age, was born June 30, 1830, and was married 
to Andrew Zeller. They have been farmers all their lives, and still 
cling to that occupation, and greatly enjoy hard work. To them were 



HISTORY or T/rr FLICKINGER family. 19 

born eight children, two sons and six daughters. Five of the daughters 
have died, one when quite young, leaving but one daughter and two 
sons now living. Maria's religious life has been a consistent one, and 
as far a.s circumstances permitted, she has been pretty active in Church 
work. Frnir of the daughters, who grew to womanhood, died of linger- 
ing diseases, making it hard on their mother to nurse and care for them, 
whicli she did most faithfully, and with Chri.stian heroism, for many 
weary months. She and her husband are now living alone un a large 
farm near I.ewisbiui' Oliin 

SrSAN .XNN FLICKINC.KR 

Was born Api.. . . <^},2. and still lives. She was marricil to The- 
odore Marslon, and to them were l)orn five children, all daughters. 
They spent a (juarter of a century on a farm, then retired from active 
life, and moved to Middletown. Ohio, where he wa.«< the vice-president of 
a bank some years. Her religiou.N life has been uniform, regularly 
attending church when ])os>ible, and doing what she could to make 
the prayer-meeting and Sunday-school successful She has been a 
painstaking, careful mother .ind wife, and most lovingh- attached to 
her family. 

CATH.VRINF K FI.ICKINf.KR 

Was born August 2, 1834, and is still living. She was niarried to 
H. C. Hunt. They commenced their married life on a farm, and con- 
tinued to be f.irmers lor a uumber of years. Later, they moved to 
Mianiisburg, Ohio, where Mr. Hunt engaged in the manufacturing 
business, which he followed successfully for over tliirl>' years, but has 
lived a retired life for the last twelve years. To them were born four 
children, two sons and two daughters. Catharine has been a most de- 
voted wife and mother, and a very zealous and eQ'icient Church worker. 
Her religious life has been that of an Israelite in deed and in truth, and 
she will be greatly mis.sed by many when removed from time into 
eternitv. 



20 HISTOR V OF THE FLICKINGER FAMIL Y. 

HANNAH JANE FLICKINGER 

Was born November 6, 1836, and died March 10, 1887. She was mar- 
ried to Benjamin Walter, to which union there were born three sons and 
one daughter. Mr. Walter kept a bookstore for some years in Hamil- 
ton, Ohio, then moved to Arkansas and superintended a large planation 
there for some years; but later moved to St. Louis, where his wife died, 
and where he still lives. She was a cheerful, patient wife and mother, 
and a faithful servant of the Lord, who made a vacancy at death which 
can never be filled. 

SARAH MARGARET FLICKINGER 

Was born April 8, 1839, and died April 19, 1849. She became a Chris- 
tian at eight years of age, and when ten years old died a triumphant 
Chri.stian death. 

Before closing this brief sketch it will not be amiss to remark that 
the parents and the ten children who reached the years of maturity were 
all professed Christians early in life, and liberal givers to religious and 
charitable purposes. The sons and son.s-in-law of this family have 
given at least $100,000 to such purposes in the last fifty years. It is 
definitely known that one member of the family has given over $15,000 
in the last half century, and that other members of the family have not 
been far behind, if any, in giving to benevolent objects. All the sons 
and sons-in-law have given liberally to the cause of education, building 
churches, paying pastors, supporting missions, and the Church and 
charitable in.stitutions. It is said that God vi.sits " the iniquity of the 
fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the 
third and to the fourth generation." May it not be true that the virtues 
of the fathers (parents) are also transmitted to the children, and to the 
children's children? 




MRS. SUSANNA (WINGERT) KUMLER, 

AGED go. 



THH KUMLHK FAMILY. 

As Hannmi Fi.icKiSiiKK. tlic Diuthcf of the Kcucrations referred 
to III ' • ' . ■ I . 1 . 1 . ij I s„^^„na Kuniler. 

the I . Kcv I) K. Flick 

inxer nt tlic Kir at llaittiltoii, Ohio. October I3. 1H89. to 

jihow liricfl) the ■ "-r side 

burn in : icr, 

Jocob, waft born in S \incrica when <tcveiiteen 



nketch : fourth, Nfichnel, th. When v;r.indfather wa*. 

<i ■ Ml ironi a horse, ami ^o >>*riou«>ly 

On Septemlicr «, wa> married to Mivh Susaiiii.i Wiiigcrt. 

who I Uis decca-ic. and died when ^h^ was ninety 

Grnndniolher Kuniler was ■ woman of htcuI energy' and executive 

ability, ;is «cll n> ,1 f.i To h<T industry, 

ecniiiiiny. and the wi hold, the ihritt .ind 

prosjMrrity of the family are largely due. Her forethought, willingness 
to help any !'■ meralKT of .s<>ci(.t\, 

a.s well as ill ., If ami mollR-r that 

she was to her husband and children. 

To them were Imrn twelvi- c! ol 

an aciideiit . the other eleven livi .. roe- 

score and ten. and with jn-rhaps two exceptions their average age was 
very much beyond that j)eriod. The two exceptions died near the age 
of seventy. The given names of the eleven children, in the order of 
their ages, arc as follows: Hannah, Henry, Susan. Mlizalxlh, Daniel. 
Elias, Jacob, Michael. Joseph, John. Catharine. 



22 HISTOR Y OF THE FLICKINGER FAMIL V. 

These eleven all married, and most of them while they were yet 
young. To them were born one hundred and two children, and the 
third generation in 1889 had two hundred and fifty-five, and the 
fourth generation one hundred and thirteen. The number of descend- 
ants living in 1.S89 was four hundred and eighty-two. 

When grandfather died, in January, 1854, he was seventy-nine years 
and five days old. His descendants then living were eleven children, 
eighty-six grandchildren and forty-seven great-grandchildren, making a 
total of one hundred and forty-four, which grew to more than three times 
that number in thirty-five years. (Now about six times that number.) 

Grandfather was reared on a farm, and always lived on one. His 
sons and sous-in-law were all farmers. True, two of the sons were min- 
isters of the gospel, and one a doctor, and two of his sons-in-law were 
preachers also, but they were all farmers as well. 

In 1816 he traveled what was known as Virginia Circuit, which re- 
quired him to travel on horseback three hundred and seventy miles every 
four weeks. The only traveling preachers in the Church then were east 
of the Alleghany Mountains, and their names were Schneider, Dehoff, 
Spayth, Kumler, and Joseph Hoffman. The last named was in charge 
of the old Otterbein Church in Baltimore. 

In 1S17 grandfather was elected presiding elder, when he spent 
thirteen successive Sundays holding protracted meetings. Owing to the 
exposure and fatigue occasioned by this long series of meetings, he had 
a tedious and painful illness, which kept him confined for sixteen weeks, 
and came near ending his life. He finally fully recovered and resumed 
his labors, which were abundant and successful. 

In 1S19, he and family, with Father Flickinger and his family, 
emigrated to Butler County, Ohio, and .settled near Miltonville and 
Seven Mile. Grandfather soon began to preach, and manifested much 
concern for the welfare of the people around him ; especially was he 
much drawn out for his neighbors, many of whom were irreligious, and 
some of them were very wicked. He was successful in winning many 
to Christ. 

From the time he was converted, in iSii, up to the day of his 
death, he was a faithful worker in the vineyard of the Lord. As a 
minister ol the gospel he magnified his office, and whenever and where- 
ever opportunity offered he proclaimed the unsearchable riches of 
Christ. For this purpose private houses, .schoolhouses, barns, and 
groves were used at that early day^ He preached in German. 



Tin: Kiwn.EK i-amilv. 23 

He was naturally a very cheerful man, and had a happy faculty of 
intersp«.Tsinj{ his conversations with little pleasantries, which made him, 
as one said of him. a perfect pass-awaytiine to all who associated with 
him. He could jc.st in a most telling way, and not unfrequently his 
jokes had all the effect of sober talk, upon questions which were un- 
pleasant to those whom he wished to correct of some evil habit, or 
caution of danger to which he saw they were exposed. This happy 
way of doing things was useful to him in his family government, and 
the government of the Church of which he was bishop twenty years, 
three years of which he was the only one the I'nitcd Brethren Church 
had. his colleague in the office having die<l the first year of the quad- 
reiinial term. He retired at seventy on account of infirmities. 




FIVE GENERATIONS. 

MRS. HANNAH iKUMLERl FLICKINGER. MRS. SUSANNA WINGE^T KL^MLER. JACOB FLlCk'INGER, 
ABRAHAM FLICKINGER, WILLIAM ELLSWORTH FLICKINGER. 



CHRONOLOGY 

OF THE 

FLICKINGRR FAMILY 



FAMILY CHRONOI OGY. 

As supplemtntal to the liisiorical sketch l>y Rkv. I) K. Fmckingkr 
of lljc ancestry aiul of his own gcncratiDii, the following information, 
compiled by Mrs. Sik E. T. Micchlino, .^iS South D Street, }^amilton, 
O.. Secretary of the Flickinger Family Association, is given regarding 
the later generations: 

Jacob FlickinGER. Sr.. was born March 20, lySa.and 
Hannah Kumler. C)ctubt.T 12, 179.S. Tlioy wen.- mar- 
ried Feliniary i ), i.Si.}. To tliciii were honi fourteen t.liil- 
dren. 

FIRST BORN. 

Samuel FlickingER was horn April .}. 1S15; married 
Maria C. Zeller. of Gernianlowu, ()., March i, 1.S3S. Tliey 
had seven children. 

Sarah Elizabeth, born i».>y. died May is. 1.S50. aged 11 years. 

Mary Hannah, born 1S44. died Augnst 12, 1S47, aged 3 years. 

Mcluzena C, born September 14. 1.S46. was married to Professor 
Henry Garst, July 28, 1868. They live at We.sterville, O. To tlKin 
Were born six children. 

.\ nAlc.nTKK, horn July 27. 1.S69; dicil in infancy. 

Makv .Xi.icic, lH)rn necdiilicr 6, lS7i,dic<l I'etiruary 24, 1S86. 

Wii.i.nM Arc.i'STis was born Septeniher 13, 1.S73; Krailuated from (Jtterbein 
I'niversity in 1894, ami from Harvard fniversity in 1.S95. He also gradnnted from 
the I, aw Department of Ohio State I'niversity in 1S9.H, and is now an ;iltoriiey at 
Ct)Innibus. (). 

SIlKA UoiMSK was bom November 2-, 1S75, married Milton Howanl Stewart, 
.•XuRHst 20. 1901, who is a dentist at Meehanicsl)urg, (). 

MiNsii: rAi-uiNE, born March 10, 1889, is the young lady of the home. 

27 



28 HISTORY OF THE FLICKINGER FAMILY. 

' Augustus Samuel was born December i6. 1848, and married OUie 
Goodman. He is a farmer near Seven Mile, O. To these parents four 
children were born. 

Samuel C, born August 25, 187S; married Lucille Smith, August 2.S, 1901, aud 
resides on a farm near Seven Mile, O. 

Misses Nina and Gr.\ce, born July 25, 1880, and June 16, 1882, respectively, are 
the young ladies of the home. 

Helen, died July iS, 1894, aged three months. 

Henry Alpheus was born May 24, 1851, married Mary Judy, of 
Germantown, O., January 6, 1881. There home is Atwood, 111. 

" — ■ Charles Milton was born November 12, 1854, and was married to 
Flora Trowbridge, of Seven Mile, O., December 19, 1876. They live in 
Atwood, 111. To them were born two daughters. 

Daisy Maria, born October 26, 1877, was married to .\lfred Shinkvviler, Decem- 
ber 24, 1S95, to whom have been born four children, all living — Flora. CUarlts, Grace, 
and Mary Alice. 

Nettie May was born May 29, 1882, and died December 31, 1887. 

^ William John was born December 3, 1857, married Mary E Jones, 
of Tu.scola, 111., December 27, 1888. They now live at Atwood, 111. To 
them have been born three children. 

Mildred JIaria, Pauline IClizabeth. and Mary Louise are all living with 
their parents in Illinois. 

SECOND. 

Jacob FlickiNGER, born July 16, 1816; luarried Bar- 
bara Katharine Beam, of Germantown, O., October 2, 1837. 
She died Attgust 7, 1844. To them were born four cliildren. 

^ Abraham B., born December 24, 1837; married Margaret M. Dut- 
row, who died March 20, 1899. They had ten children. He lives at 
Areola, 111. 

Klla Odora, a daughter, born July 31, 1861 ; died August 22, 1S61. 

William Ellsworth, born September 17, 1862; lives at Seven Mile, O. 

Hannah Jane, born January 9, 1865 ; a professional nurse; lives at Areola, 111. 

Ida Alice, born December 9, 1866; a professional nurse; also lives at .\rcola. 111. 

Frank Jacob, born September 10, 1868; a painter; lives in California. 

Lydia Echo, born August 8, 1870; married Samuel Davis, a tailor, and lives 
in Areola, and to them was born a daughter, Ida, in 1900. 

Katharine, born October 7, 1873; married Hale Allen, a farmer, living at 
Hebron, Ind. Tliev have a daughter, ;\Iary ^largaret. aged seven years. 



FAMILY CHRONOLOGY. 29 

HakhY Obadiah, born St-pteinbcr 20. 1S76, is a telegraph operator at Areola, 111. 
He WIS married December 2.(, 1901, to Sue Chaplin, of Miittoon. III. 

ImaNT IJAI r.HVKK, born March fi, |8.S>; died the same day. 

Nellie Oris, honi I'el.niary i. 1883. is a young lady, with her fallier, who is a 
retired farmer, lising at .Krcola, 111 

Mary, born Augu.st 20, 1839; married Frank X. Kuniler, of Indiana, 
a fanner, November 3, 1864. They live at Seven Mile. O. Two sons 
and two daughters were given them. 

Walter, born January 14. i'*M. and married V.\ " f Parker. South Dakota, 

October 16, 189.1. Walter i> c^.1IMiner in the Civil - !nniiN.sion at Washing 

ton. D. C, and residen at Kennington. Md. .\ son. Kelvin Chase, was born July 5. 
1897. 

KaTharvnh Ai'GtSTA. born Noveint>cr Ji, 1S71; died January _V'. '899- 

HoUACK. born .\pril 4, 1869; i.^ a farmer at Seven Mile, O. 

Hannah Mabel Lulu, born November j, 1S76. and lives at Seven Mile. O 

Henry Martin, born October 16, 1840; died October iH. 184;. 

Hannah, born IJccLinbcr i.S, 1842: married Joseph A. Yingling. 
master ineclianie, November 3, 1864. They live at Hamilton, O. Six 
children were born to them. 

Marv I.,., born June u, 1866, and died August 11. 1S07. 

I,oRA Ann, born January 7, 186.S, marrietl to Jamca .\. Jones, coal dealer, Ham- 
ilton. O., Tebrnary 27, l^i9o. They have three sons— James Hdwin. born June 30. 
1S94; Howell anil John Taul (Iwinsi, Ixirn Deccmlter 7, 1896. 

MiN.NlE R.. l)orn September 13, iVxy. married ICdwin C. Korner. of Hanviltou, 
railroad ofhrial. April 15, 1897. Mr. Korner ilieil September 22, 1900. I'rcderick Jay, 
born in 1S99. 

Jacob H., born February 13, 1873, mechanic; lives in Hamilton 

Jesse O., tjom July II, 1875; mechanic; lives in Hamilton. 

Lou M., born March 3, 1878, is the young lady of the home. 

Jacob Flickinger's second marriage was to Catharine 
Laudis, October lo, 1845. She died February 22, 1856. Two 
sons and two daughters were born to them. 

Samuel, born November 2^, 184(3. He is at Kankakee, 111. 
^^ Jacob, born March 12, 1S48; married Frank Meyers, of Westerville, 
O. He died April 7, 1899, leaving a widow with two sons and a daugh- 
ter. She lives at Westerville, O. 

RoscoE, born 1873; lives at .Anderson. Ind.; is a machinist. 
Lai'Ra, bom 1878; lives at Westerville, O. 
Ralph, bom 1888; lives at Westerville, O. 



30 HISTORY OF THE FLICKINGER FAMILY. 

Sarah A., born January lo, 1850; married Sliobal V. Mansion, Jan- 
uary ti, 187 r, who is in the railroad business at St. Louis. 

Maria Catharine Rose, born December 27, 1852; married David 
Dransfield, a farmer, in 1874. She died December 7, 1898. Three daugh- 
ters were born; one died in infancy. 

Katharine Laura, born iu 1876; married Mr. IMefeiibach, of Lynn, lud. They 
have one child. 

Sarah Dransfield, born in 1S79: lives in Collinsville, O. 

Jacob Flickinger's third marriage was to Mrs. Lydia 
Dutrow, Januar}' i, 1857. He died January 25, 1890, and she 
on March 10, 1901. From this union there was one child. 

Lou Etta, born July 31, 1858; married Joseph J. Knox, who lives at 
Westerville, O.: a lumber merchant. .\ son and daughter have been born 
to them. 

Noi.A, bom 1 88 1. 
. Jay, born 1888, who at an early age was a lover of art. 

THIRD. 

Joseph FliCKINGER was born March II, 1818, and 
died October 20, 1832, in the fifteenth year of his age. 

FOURTH. 

Susannah Flickinger was born July 16, 1820, and 

died on October 5th of the same 3'ear, aged less than three 

months. 

FIFTH. 

Henry Flickinger was born July 28, 1821; married 
November 5, 1S40, to Elizabeth Farlow, of Millville, O. The 
former died July 10, 1891 ; the latter died November 12, 1897. 
To them were born five sous and three daughters. 

--— - Amos was born April ii, 1842. He enli.sted in the Civil War 
August 4, 1862, and was a member of the 93d Ohio Infantry. On Decem- 
ber 31, 1862, he was mortally wounded at the battle of Stone River, and 
died at Murfreesboro, Tenn., January 14, 1863, aged 20 years. 

Matilda was born July 25, 1843; died December 27, 1868, aged 25 
years. The d;n- she passed from earth she was to have been married. 



FAMIL ) ■ C//A7 Wr >/. (>r; J '. 3 1 

Noah wa-. born November q, 1^41;: died December 29, 1874, aged 2q 
years. 

Edward, born August \i, i"^47; was married May 18, 1872, lo 
Eninin McCuUougli. of Bellefontaine, O.. who died April 27, 1882. A 
daughter and a son were born to them. 

Edna, born in 1M74. dird in 1877, wlii-n three years old. 

Frank wn.s torn in 1S7H, and is connected with the Flickin^er Wheel Works, at 
Galion, O.. of which his father is president. 

Edward was again married in 1SS3 to F.li/abeth Colly, of Sandusky. 
O. To them have been born two b(i>s aud one girl. 

ICliWARD, boni in l88.<i 
Ua/.ki., born in |H.>W. 
kfSSKi.i., Iiorn in |H9<;. 

Hannah Ann, bom December 19, 1849; was married, March, 1887, 
to William H. Hone, of Uloum Center, O. Herbert, a son, was born to 
them in 1890. Tiiey live on a farm near Bloom Center, O. 

Enoch H., born June 7, 1S53: died April 23, 1882, of fever, while 
crossing the Gulf of Mexico. He died on shiplward. and was buried at 
Cedar Keys. Fla., aged 2.s years. 

-— - Landis I., born February 28, 1855; was married November, 1889, 
to Anna Casebolt. They have added to their household M.\r:k, Ivdward, 
and I'kkd.v. He lives near Bellefontaine, O. 

Susan Jane, born May 20, 1X51;; lives at the homestead in Seven 
Mile, O. 

SIXTH. 

Daniel Kumler Flickinger, boru May 25, 1S24 ; 
married Mary Liulucr, Fcbruarj- 25, 1847. She died Sep- 
tember 30, 1S51. They had three sons. 

Samuel Jacob, born February 14, 184S: bachelor; with The Asso- 
ciated Press at Cincinnati. 

Infant son, June 4, 1S50; lived only six days. 
^— Daniel Lintner, boru September 25, 1S51 ; married Mary Black, 
Februarj- 27, 1S77; died October 24, 1S94, leaving a widow with two 
sons and two daughters who reside at Columbus, O. 

Richard Black, a railway clerk, was born March 9, 187S. 
Sar.\ii Marc.arkt, December 26, 1S79. 
Mary Elizabkth. July 21, 1.S84. 
Samvki. Lintner, Februarj- 23, 1886. 



32 HISTORY OF THE FLICKINGER FAMILY. 

D. K. Flickinger's second marriage was to Catherine 
V. Glossbrenner, January 9, 1853. She died August 17, 1854. 
Their infant daughter died November 13, 1853, five days 
after birth. 

D. K. Flickinger's third marriage was to Susan Wool- 
sey, October 30, 1855; both being missionaries in Africa at 
the time. She died June 17, 1901. They had three daugh- 
ters and three sons. 

Mary Catherine, born March 3, 1857; married W. L. Todd, June 
19, 1877. He died August 24, 1887. Their only child, Ruy Luzerne, 
died April 29, 1888; aged 7 years and 4 months. On May 25, 1898, 
Mary Catherine married Carmi P. Williams. They reside at Indianapolis. 

Sarah Jane, born August 19, 1858; married C. P. Williams, April 
19, 1880. She died October 6, 1896, leaving her husband with two sons 
and two daughters. 

Carmi Luzerne, boru September 17, 1883. 
Charles Walter, July 26, i8S5. 
Nellie Marie. November 19, 18SS. 
Susan W., February 5, 1891. 

Cornelia Glossbrenner, born March 20, i860; married Harry H. 
Myers, June 14, 18S8. They have two sons, and live at Willoughby, O. 

John Flickinger Myers was born May 24, 1889. 
Max Moorhead Mvers, February 18, 1891. 

Elmer Ellsworth, born April 7, 1862; married Florence Wilson, 

December 2, 1886. They live at Indianapolis. He is associated with 
C. P. Williams in life insurance. He has two daughters and two sons. 

Beulah Marie was born April 8, 1888. 
Florence Irene, March iS, 1891. 
Daniel Wilson, July 18, 1894. 
Ray Wilson, August 9, 1S99. 

-^ John William, born January 17, 1864; married E. Ethel Campbell, 
October 11, 1897. He is editor of the Enterprise at Clyde, O. They 
have two daughters. 

Susan Yie, was born July 20, 1898. 
Francis Bee, April i, 1900. 

Charles Henry, born August 20, 1868; died April 22, 1877. 



FAMILY CHRONOLOGY. 33 

SEVENTH. 

Elizabeth Flickinger was born March 11, 1S26, 
and married Andrew Timberman, February 29, 1S44, who 
died May 8, 1889. She lives on Spring F'arm, near Hamil- 
ton, O. To them were born ten children, all of whom are 
living. 

Hannah Elizabeth Timberman, born October 25, tS44, and mar- 
ried James Dick, July 31, 1865. who died September 27, 1888. To them 
were born six daugliters and one son. She resides on the Spring Farm, 
near Hamilton, O. 

Dora Drll Dick, born December 10, 1866, and mtrried, Fcbru«r>- J5, 189J, to 
Joseph Gillespie, of Millville. O., who hnve hail born lo them five daughters as 
follows: Ronnie Marguerite, I'ebrunrj- j. 1S93. Mar)- Katharine. May iS, 189.J. 
Georgim Dick, July 18, 1896. Gladys Grace, August 1. 1899; died .\ugust 5, 1899. 
Lelia Timberman, July 19, 1900. 

RosAUK Dick, born January 11, 1.S69; died October 10, 1870. 

Sarah Dick, born January 21, 1S71, and married Daniel Oscar Johns, an edu- 
cator, August 2J, 1900, and Ihcy reside in Hamilton, O. 

SAMrui. Dick was born Dccemlier 9, tS7j ; died August j6, 1874. 

lil'PHKMlA Jank Dick was lorn June 6, 1-S75, and married Waller .\ndrews, 
eilucator. December 7. 1901, who reside in Chicago. 

Nelmk Dick, bom July y>, 1S80; a teacher. 

Ruth Dick, October 9, i8Sj; in Hamilton Migh School. 

Susan Emeline Timberman, born June 16, 1846 ; married April 10, 
1894, to (i. Z. Mecliliiig, pastor of First Coiigregjational Church, Ham- 
ilton. O. 

Matthew Jacob Timberman, born September 27, 1848; married 
February 25, 1890, to Sarah Jones. They live on a farm near Bclle- 
fontainc, O. 

John Wesley Timberman, born March 4, 1S51, and lives at Spring 
Farm, near Hamilton. (). 

Sam'l Flickinger Timberman, boni December 19, 1852, and lives 
at Spring Farm, near Hamilton, O. 

Maria Jane Timberman, born September 4, 1856; married Octo- 
ber 8, 1885, to Samuel I. McClelland, an educator. They are living at 
Middletown, O. 

Ida Kate Timberman, born April 5, 1859; married August 9, 1899, 
to John Randolph, Rector of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, at Scranton, 
Pa. A daughter, Brunhilde, born May 30, 1900, has been given them. 



34 HISTOR V OF THE FLICKINGER FAMIL Y. 

Mary Alice Timberman, born April 22, 1861; lives at Spring 
Farm, near Hamilton, O. 

Andrew Jackson Timberman, born May 10, 1864; married June 
19, 1895, to Lelia Stanbery, of McConnelsville, O. To them a daughter, 
Katharine, June 8, 1897, has been born. They live in Columbus, O. 
He is a specialist of eye and ear and throat. 

Jesse Kumler Timberman, born November 15, 1866, and is en- 
gaged in the wholesale grocery business in Peoria, 111. 

EIGHTH. 

John K. FliCKINGER was born May 3, 1827 ; married 
Sarah Jane Marston, October 25, 1859. They live at Co- 
lumbia, O. T. To them have been born eight children. 

Edw^ard M., born November 14, 1861 ; married Eunice M. Potter, 
November 28, 1891. He is manager of the Farmers' Elevator at King- 
fisher, O. T., and has three sons. 

Ralph Waldo, boru August 21, 1S92. 
MiLO Potter, January 13, 1S97. 
JouN Perry, May 17, 1899. 

Mary, born June 12, 1864; Merle, February 12, 1889; Both live at 
Columbia, O. T. 

Hannah, born October 6, 1865 ; married William Rush Haines, a 
broker of Hennessey, O. T., March 22, 1888 ; have two children. 

Sarah Deborah, February 26, 1890. 
WhiTELAW Reid, December 22, 1S93. 

" Morton M., boru September 12, 1869 ; married Mrs. Lucy Mather, 
February 12, 1896. They live at Kingfisher, O. T., where he has a store. 
They have two children. 

George Mather, born January 11, 18S9 (her son by former marriage). 
Glen Marston, born June 30, 1S98. 

Joseph, born September 27, 1S71; single, and lives at Kingman, 
Kan. 

Sadie, born March 31, 1875; married November 29, 1894, to Estes 
W. Cooprider, a minister at Aline, O. T., where they reside. 

Their only child, Edna, was born September i, 1896. 



FAMIL } ■ CHR ONOL OGY. 35 

Nancy Elizabeth, born Januan- 27, 1877; resides with her parents 
at Columbia, O. T. 

John K., Jr., horn Xovenibcr 3, 1879; died July 12, i88o. 

NINTH. 
Infant, born July 4, 1829; lived only three hours. 

TENTH. 

Maria Flickinger. born June 30, 1830; married Feb- 
ruary 17, 1848, to Andrew Phillip Zeller, a farmer. They 
live near Lewisburg, (), To them nine children were born. 

John Jacob Astor ZcUcr, born December 27, 184S; married October 
'3. '873, to ICmma L. Humphries. They reside at Waterman, 111. He 
is engaged in the hardware bu.sines.s. Two sons were born to them. 

Bknnii-; \V.\rij, born June 30, 1S77 ; died Seplcnibcr 7, 1877, 
.■\vo.v Itt'.Mi-ilKll'.s, horn f'l-hriinry io, iSJii. 

Mary Linda Hannah Zcllcr, born February 20, 1851 ; died Septem- 
ber 3, 1852. 

Samuel Theodore Zcllcr, born June 5, 1H53: married Caroline F. 
Foster, May 3'. 1881. This family lives at Sterling, 111. He is engaged 
in shipping grain. To these parents were given 

NKLI.IK !■"., Miirch jj, 18H1. 

Samiei. T., April 16, 1884. 

Clark.nck .■\., July 13, i«86; died April 7, 1890. 

Ruth, October 20, 1894. 

Ralph, October i, 1899. 

Maria Viola Jane Zeller, born December 20, 1855; died August 
12, 1889. 

Catharine Elizabeth Zeller, born August 29, 1857; died August 
8. 1859. 

Carrie Alice Zeller, born October 9, i860; died November 30, 1887. 

Ida Meluzena Zeller, born May 18, 1S63: married Dr. William 
Cooper Stubbs, April 12, 1888, now a resident of CeUna, O. Their child- 
ren are 

Elmer Joseph, bom Kebruarj- 16, 1890. 
Carroll Andrew, born July 7, 1891. 
John Theodore, born September 27, 1901. 



36 HISTOR Y OF THE FLICKINGER FAMIL V. 

Sarah Luella Zeller, bom January 13, 1865; died July 22, 1885. 
Anna Victoria Zeller, born April 5, 1868; died Juue 6, 1891. 

ELEVENTH. 

Susan Ann FliCKINGER, born April 28, 1832 ; mar- 
ried Theodore Marston, September 2, 185 1 ; now a retired 
banker and farmer. They are living at Middletown, O. 
Five daughters blest this union. 

Mary Alice Marston, born August 26, 1852 ; married Nelson Good, 
a farmer, October 23, 1874. To them were born three children. They 
live at Trenton, O. 

Theodore Marston Good, born September 15, 1S75 ; a farmer. 
Jessie K.\tharine Good, born January 6, 1S80 ; at home, Trenton, O. 
Frank Good, died in infancy ; aged 6 months. 

Hannah Jane Marston, born August 21, 1854; married William 
Beal, a merchant and farmer, of Westerv'ille, O., March 15, 1888. To 
them have been born two children. 

A Daughter, born December 29, 1892 ; died the same day. 
Theodore Marston Beal,, born May 20, 1S94. 

Elizabeth Marston, born June 12, 1857; married October 25, 1877, 
to Dr. James Lowry Kirkpatrick, who died August 27, 1901, after prac- 
ticing medicine in Hamilton over thirty years. Four children resulted 
from this union. 

Ethel Kirkpatrick, born February 16, 1S79 : died the same day. 
Ralph Dane Kirkpatrick, born November 15, 1880. 
Jame.s Marston Kirkpatrick, born April 10, 1SS4. 
Theodore Dunlap Kirkpatrick, born April 15, 1888. 

Kate Marston, born November 28, 1861 ; married Frank C. Moore, 
paper manufacturer of Middletown, O., October 2, 1884. Three children 
have blessed them. 

Alkred William Moore, born June 23, 1S85. 

Susie Marston Moore, born August 4, 1887; died November 17, 1891. 

Douglas Marston Moore, born September 23, 1896. 

Edna Marston, born February 14, 1866; died June 23, 1880; aged 
fourteen years. 



FAMIL V CHRONOLOG Y. 37 

TWELFTH. 

Catharine K. Flickinger was bom August 2, 1S34. 
She was married to Heury C. Hunt, now a retired manu- 
facturer, Juue 3, 1856. They now reside in Miamisburg, O. 
To them were born four children, two boys and two girls, 

Charles Edward Hunt was bom August 7, 1857; died April 11, 
1900. 

Hannah Jane Hunt was born Oclobtr 24, 1S59; died October 3, 
1879. 

Rachel Elizabeth Hunt, l)orn February- 27, 1862; was married 
November i.S, i^sSs. to Win. D. Hoover, a real estate and money broker 
of Denver, Colo. They have two sons. 

Km^^^• Hi-nt IIoovkr, born March 15, 1S.S7. 

rioNAi.ii HoFi' Hoover, tiorn No\tnil>cr 13, 1894. 

Wm. F. Hunt, born March 6, 1865, is an attorney iu St. Paul, 
Minn. He was married, September 27, 1899. to Miss Hmma Brown 
Fairchild. They have one child. 

CaTHaBINK rAIRClllt.l) Hint, horn October 39, 1900. 

THIRTEENTH. 

Hannah Jane Flickinger was born in Butler 
County, O., November 6, 1836; was married to Benjamin 
Walter, of Seven Mile, O., April 27, 1S58, and died in St. 
Louis, March 10, 1887. They moved to St. Louis in 1874, 
and the survivors still live there. Four children were born 
to this union. 

William A., bom in Seven Mile. O., January 13, i860; died in St. 
Louis, September 24, 1893. 

Richard H., born iu Hamilton, O., May 28, 1864: in business in St. 
Louis. 

Theodore M., boru in Hamilton, O., June 11, 1S69; died in Ar- 
kansas. February* 3, 1872. 

Katy, horn in Seven Mile, O., August i, 187 1 ; living with her father. 

FOURTEENTH. 

Sarah Margaret was born April 8, 1839, and died 

April 19, 1S49. 



FAMILY RECORDS. 

Some families were not reported as fully as others to the Secretary, 
Mrs. Mechling; and for that reason the family chronology is not com- 
plete in dates, etc. "The returns" from different families are published 
as they were received, and any omissions or errors are due to members 
of the families themselves, and not to the compiler, who made every 
effort possible to have this record correct and complete. 

This chronology, from the birth of Jacob Flickinger, Sr., in 1782 to 
1902, covers 120 years, and 284 kindred. 

The largest family is that of Jacob Flickinger, 60, and the next, that 
of Daniel Kumler Flickinger, 37. Those of Samuel Flickinger and 
Elizabeth Timberman are 35 each ; those of Henry Flickinger and Maria 
Zeller, 24 each; those of John Kumler Flickinger and Susan Ann Mars- 
ton, 23 each; of Catherine K. Hunt, 11 ; and of Hannah Jane Walter, 6. 
The six others included in the total of 284 are Jacob and Hannah Flick- 
inger, and their third, fourth, ninth, and fourteenth born. 



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ADDENDA AND PERSONAL. 

It would be vain in me to refer to the merits of my father's " Storj- 
of the Flickingers. " I will say that the story would have been lost but 
for the persistence and liberality of Cousin F.dward in having it pub- 
lished. It was his enthusiasm that first enlisted my father, and later 
Mrs. Mechling and myself. As Mrs. Mechling did most of the work 
a.ssigned to the Committee on Later Generations, I scarcely share in the 
honors of this quartet ; but I want a word with the younger genera- 
tions, in which I certainly can not be considered as jiersonally interested. 

After the death of dreat grandmother Kumler, the annual reunions 
of the Kumler family at Hamilton were discontinued. The Flickingers, 
as the oldest branch of the Kumlcrs, continued to liold annual reunions. 
At the reunion in August, 1S91, at the Zeller homestead, near Lewis- 
burg, O., the following officers were elected : 

President, Tubodokb Marston, Middletown, O. 

Vice-Pre.sident. S J. Fi.ickinc.KR, Cincinnati. 

Secretary', .SiK F T. Mkchlinc, 31.S South I) vStreet, Hamilton, O. 

Treasurer, Hhnrv C. Htnt, Miamisburg, O. 

It was decided to aik all who could not attend these reunions here- 
after to write to the secretary, Mrs. Sue Iv T. Mechling. 318 South D 
Street, Hamilton, O., early in August, each year, and give the story of 
themselves and of their families for the current year. These letters will 
be interesting to all at the reunions ; they will afterward be compiled 
into a general letter that will be sent to all whose addresses are known. 

The four surviving daughters of Jacob and Hannah Flickinger still 
live near each other in the Miami \'alley of Ohio, but the Uvo sun-iving 
sons are far apart, and the younger generations are scattering more each 
year, so that the only chance to keep up accjuaintance is through the 
annual letter. Please mention any births, deaths, marriages, or any 
other incidents you may know of in connection with your family or any 
other relatives, and thus we can have a " continued story of the Flick- 
ingers." 

S. J. Flickinger. 

Cincinnati, Fkbrtarv 14, 1902. 

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